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The Astrology of Space
A Neutron Star
To avoid this further contraction, it is believed that
many stars unload or blow off enough excess mass to
get within the Chandrasekhar Limit. The nova is an
example of an attempt of this kind. In recent years it
has become clear that not all stars are successful in
discarding their excess mass, and for them a very
different state results than what we find in the white
dwarf. We have seen that the electron pressure is not
strong enough to halt the contraction process and the
star gets smaller and tighter. The pressure and
density increase until the electrons are squeezed into
the nuclei of the atoms out of which the star is made.
At this point the negatively charged electrons combine
with the positively charged protons and the resulting
neutron force is strong enough to again halt the
contraction process and we have another type of
stellar corpse: a neutron star.
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